| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
IN MEMORIAM
Dennis Greene
(Poets.org)
Peter Bladen-Pryor
We met just once, an evening on the Swan
above the rowing club, and spoke of art,
and poetry; I'd like to say we watched
the river run in silent circles smooth
as glass across the far light speckled
surface of Perth Water -- I'd like to say
we saw the stars as burning suns
that fed on poems,
but we said nothing of the night,
the place, the river; just talked of art,
the joy and pain of sonnets -- and bouquets
that bear the burden of a life,
a thousand thousand times
more complex than a poem.
Judge Joan Houlihan's comment: “With economy of language, the poem plumbs the idea of irretrievability and conveys a sense of deep loss. What is left unsaid becomes an equally important part of the text that moves us.”
About the InterBoard Poetry Competition
Archive of IBPC Winners
3rd Place Winner, December 2001
